PDF converter & validation – components and solutions overview
- Document Converter
- Scan to PDF Server
- Image to PDF Converter
- PDF to Image Converter
- PDF to PDF/A Converter
- PDF Analysis & Repair
- PDF Validator
- PDF OCR
3-Heights™ Document Converter
The 3‑Heights™ Document Converter is a company-wide PDF converter solution that converts all popular file formats to PDF, PDF/A and TIFF.
Use cases
- Convert Office documents to PDF, PDF/A and TIFF
- Convert emails (with attachments) to PDF, PDF/A and TIFF
- Offer as online conversion service
- Implement as central conversion portal
3-Heights™ Scan to PDF Server
The 3-Heights™ Scan to PDF Server is a central service that allows the user to convert scanned documents into PDF/A format.
Use cases
- Automatically convert scanned documents to PDF/A
- Offer as online conversion service
- Implement as central conversion portal
- Make scanned documents searchable
3-Heights™ Image to PDF Converter
The 3‑Heights™ Image to PDF Converter component converts raster images such as TIFF, JPM and JPEG to PDF/A and PDF documents.
Use cases
- Conversion of single page or multi-page raster images to PDF
- Set output format and conformity level (PDF, PDF/A‑1, PDF/A‑2 and PDF/A‑3)
- Support for mixed raster content (MRC)
- Embed and select the color profile
- Define alternative texts (so-called tagging) and their language
- Embed XMP metadata
- Set document attributes such as title or author
- Input and output document from file or memory
- OCR (optional)
3-Heights™ PDF to Image Converter
The 3-Heights™ PDF to Image Converter is a component for converting PDF documents into single page or multi-page raster images such as TIFF or JPEG and more.
Use cases
- Convert PDF documents to raster images
- Integrate into COLD and fax/archiving systems
- Create thumbnails
3-Heights™ PDF to PDF/A Converter
The 3‑Heights™ PDF to PDF/A Converter is a component for converting PDF documents into the PDF/A format for long-term archiving.
Use cases
- Convert PDF documents to PDF/A
- Add PDF/A-compliant long-term digital signature and embed metadata
- Integrate into archiving systems
3-Heights™ PDF Analysis & Repair
The 3‑Heights™ PDF Analysis & Repair component detects and repairs corrupted PDF documents in automated processing procedures. It repairs defective or illegible PDF documents or restores them as far as possible.
Use cases
- Automatically detect and repair corrupted PDF documents
- Restore lost content
- Use at incoming-mail stage to improve quality
3-Heights™ PDF Validator
The 3‑Heights™ PDF Validator safeguards the quality of PDF documents and the processes that create them. Documents are checked for compliance with the ISO standards for PDF and PDF/A documents.
Use cases
- Check PDF documents for compliance with ISO standards
- Check organization-specific criteria
- Integrate into archiving systems
3-Heights™ PDF OCR
The 3-Heights™ PDF OCR enhances PDF documents using information detected by an OCR engine.
Use cases
- Embed all found text elements in documents including in images & graphics
- Prepare documents for PDF/A level A conversion
- Extract embedded barcodes and QR-codes or embed them into metadata
Special
ZUGFeRD
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- How does PDF Tools AG support ZUGFeRD?
- What do you have to keep in mind?
Knowledge
PDF rendering & conversion white papers
The 3‑Heights™ Scan to PDF Server – basics and applications
The 3‑Heights™ Document Converter – basics and applications
Release notes
3‑Heights™ and Classic PDF Tools version 4.10
Basics about PDF & PDF/A
PDF Primer - the basics of PDF
PDF/A - the standard for long-term archiving
The 10 most important things you should know about PDF/A
PDF/A-3 overview (PDF/A-2 vs PDF/A-3)
Publications
The PDF – we can’t do without it. Document formats, ISO standards, long‑term archiving
We have a series of very specialized tools for various scenarios. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any requirement you may have.